...as I sat in my Bible course that I am taking at the ACSI Teacher's Conference, GOD once again used the caterpillar and the butterfly.
I open my book,"The Miracle of Life Change" by Chip Ingram, the first session began with:
Butterflies don't look like caterpillars. Unless we've watched the time-consuming and agonizing process that the worm undergoes to become lighter than air, we would probably doubt anyone who told us that caterpillars become butterflies...unless we trusted that person. A crawler becomes a flyer? That much change sounds incredible. Almost as incredible as people changing.
Ask most people and they'll probably agree it's easier to identify with the caterpillar than the butterfly. We dream about butterfly freedom but wake up in wormy captivity. And yet the dreams may be a hint of what we're designed to experience. What if the One who put that dream of change in you had already made it possible for your dream to become a reality.
I knew without a doubt that I was suppose to be sitting all day in that room taking that class and then return for an extra two hour session tonight (which only those of us in this class have to do extra).
I am not understanding why this idea of the caterpillar and the butterfly keep coming up? But I got to add that I got alot out of this class. It was truly refreshing and filled me up. I am looking forward to what tomorrow will hold. I have to take a philosophy class.
This started as my online journal of the journey GOD was taking me on to teach in Seoul, South Korea and now continues with where HE is leading me after there. My goal in life is to have my life reflect Christ, sometimes without ever even having to say a word. After all, the best gift we have to share is who HE has created us to be.
"Lord... give me the gift of faith to be renewed and shared with others each day. Teach me to live this moment only, looking neither to the past with regret, nor the future with apprehension. Let love be my aim and my life a prayer." ~Roseann Alexander-Isham
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